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Ideas for 'Parmenides', 'Launching Points to the Realm of the Mind' and 'Elbow Room: varieties of free will'

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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / a. Philosophy as worldly

3798	An overexamined life is as bad as an unexamined one [Dennett]
	Full Idea: The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the overexamined life is nothing to write home about either.
	From: Daniel C. Dennett (Elbow Room: varieties of free will [1984], §4.2)
	A reaction: Presumably he means a life which is all theory and no practice. Compare Idea 343.

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / b. Philosophy as transcendent

18450	Philosophy has its own mode of death, by separating soul from body [Porphyry]
	Full Idea: There is a double death. One, known by all men, consists in the separation of the body with the soul; the other, characteristic of philosophers, results in the separation of the soul from the body.
	From: Porphyry (Launching Points to the Realm of the Mind [c.280], 1Enn9 3)